Friday, October 2, 2015

Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 238

Next Wednesday October 7 is the 60th Anniversary of the legendary Gallery Six reading, the first public performance of "Howl", the pioneering reading-event (Kerouac in the audience, carrying that jug of wine) that got the whole thing goingCelebratory events are being planned in Australia, London, Paris, Boulder, San Francisco, New York City, and elsewhere…Here's one in Kingston, Ontario (Canada) (Eric Folsom hosts local poets Mary Cameron, Jennifer Londry and Bruce Kauffman)

The following day (Thursday the 8th) - and through the coming weekend - it's, once again, the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac celebrations in Kerouac's New England home-town. David Amram, Andy Clausen,Pamela Twiningand four days of activities.A full schedule of events can be found hereEmory in Atlanta just acquired a trove of rare Jack Kerouac materials, including "manuscripts and correspondence dating from the 1940s to the 1960s". This (from an August 11, 1954 note) - Jack: "Cher Allen, Pourquoi tu n'ecrit pas?". You seem to be writing to every Tom Dick N Harry except me. You betray your ambition - but please remember, Sage, a useless tree is never cut up into a coffin. Enuff nonsense, I'm just 'pulling your leg" like Neal, [sic] uck, uck, uck."